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"For now we are young let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see" Neutral Milk Hotel.

Saturday, 4 January 2014

Good run continues...

The patches good run continues after a sea watch from The Firs produced the first Slavonian Grebe (two) & Great Northern Divers of the year. Two absolute beauties to nail so early in the year! Both species can be pretty hard to catch up with. The 1st winter Black-throated Diver Chris & I had on the 2nd was still offshore and again just beyond the surf. A walk out onto Lavender marsh, Thornham for Mipits and Rockits proved fruitless but worthwhile with a female Melin and two Whooper Swans west. With the rain looking settled in I called it a day after lunch but just before I left I checked North Field where Andy had seen the manky (Lesser?) White-fronted Goose hybrid with the Greylags but I couldn't locate it. Three Snipe went over though which was new for the year.